Feeding the world also feeds Iowa farmers. Congress needs to help.

Feeding the world also feeds Iowa farmers. Congress needs to help.

When Congress invests in programs to combat global hunger, it is putting real money into the pockets of Iowa farmers. (Photo via Getty Images)In November 1979, I escorted Gov. Robert D. Ray and first lady Billy Ray to the Thai-Cambodian border, where we witnessed thousands of Cambodians who had escaped the Khmer Rouge genocide starving to death. Victims were dying at the rate of 50 to 100 a day, bulldozed into mass graves. After this trip, Gov. …